A case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia presenting as severe hypercalcemia.

abstract：:Both transplanted and leukemia patients are at high risk (HR) for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA). Methods for rapid diagnosis are crucial. Our objective was to investigate the impact of serial serum galactomannan assay (GMA) screening on IPA diagnosis in children. Between January 2010 and December 2011, all ch...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Gefen A,Zaidman I,Shachor-Meyouhas Y,Avidor I,Hakim F,Weyl Ben-Arush M,Kassis I

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nesiritide is a recombinant formulation of B-type natriuretic peptide used most commonly in the treatment of adults with decompensated congestive heart failure. The physiologic effects of BNP include natriuresis, diuresis, and smooth muscle relaxation. These physiologic effects result in its beneficial therapeutic eff...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Wheeler AD,Tobias JD

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thalassemic children are at a high risk of graft rejection in cord blood transplantation. To investigate this possible mechanism, the authors evaluated the effect of panel reactive antibody on the growth of CD34(+) cells in vitro. On semisolid medium, CD34(+) cells derived from cord blood were incubated with thalassem...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Fang JP,Xu LH,Yang XG,Wu YF,Weng WJ,Xu HG

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11-year-old girl with hereditary factor-VII deficiency and her family have been studied for factor VII coagulation activity (VII:C) and factor VII antigen level (VII:Ag). The proband had 11% VII:C, whereas her VII:Ag was at a level that corresponds to about 50% coagulation activity. Forty-two members of the proband...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Svendsen J,Osterud B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an autopsy series of children with cancer, histopathologic myocardial changes caused by anthracyclines (A) were evaluated. The series comprised three groups: group A, 9 patients given A whose myocardial function had been evaluated before death; group B, 10 patients given A, but no lifetime echocardiographic evaluat...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Pihkala J,Sariola H,Saarinen UM

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The authors report the experience at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles with brain tumors diagnosed before 6 months of age, describing the characteristics of the patients, their tumors, treatment strategies, and prognostic factors. METHODS:Thirty-three children who were identified between 1979 and 2005 wer...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Serowka K,Chiu Y,Gonzalez I,Gilles F,McComb G,Krieger M,Dhall G,Britt B,Ji L,Sposto R,Finlay JL

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to analyze the major causes of abnormal findings seen in the preoperative coagulation tests of asymptomatic pediatric patients and to discuss the usefulness of coagulation tests prior to minor surgery. Among patients who received minor surgery in Kyung Hee University Medical Center from ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kang S,Yoon HS,Lee EH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percentage of chemotherapy-induced necrosis in primary tumors corresponds with outcome in several childhood malignancies, including high-risk metastatic diseases. In this retrospective pilot study, the authors assessed the importance of postchemotherapy necrosis in high-risk neuroblastoma with a histological and c...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Bomken S,Davies B,Chong L,Cole M,Wood KM,McDermott M,Tweddle DA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parvovirus B19 (PVB19) is the causative agent of infectious erythema. In healthy children the virus causes transient erythroid aplasia, whereas in children with chronic hemolytic anemias it can cause severe aplastic crises, and in immunodeficient individuals it can produce chronic red cell aplasia. If contracted durin...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Miniero R,Dalponte S,Linari A,Saracco P,Testa A,Musiani M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective, population-based registration of children with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was performed in Norway in 1996 and 1997. Ninety-two cases were identified, indicating an incidence of 5.3 per 100,000 children under 15 years. The sex ratio (female/male) was 1.2/1. Fifty-six percent presented with cut...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Zeller B,Helgestad J,Hellebostad M,Kolmannskog S,Nystad T,Stensvold K,Wesenberg F

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the efficacy of hydroxyurea treatment in the prevention of vaso-occlusive crises among children and teenagers with severe sickle cell anemia and sickle cell beta-thalassemia. Nineteen children and young adults with severe sickle cell disease were enrolled to the hydroxyurea treatment trial. The in...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Koren A,Segal-Kupershmit D,Zalman L,Levin C,Abu Hana M,Palmor H,Luder A,Attias D

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRT) of soft tissues are aggressive tumors, which can be detected in almost any part of the body. MRT are rare, and very few cases have been reported in the literature. Prognosis of these tumors is extremely poor despite intensive therapy. Some risk factors such as young age or disseminated ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Hernández-Marqués C,Lassaletta A,Cormenzana M,García-Esparza E,Madero-López L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the mid-1960s intrathecal chemotherapy (methotrexate [MTX], cytarabine [Ara-C], or both, plus hydrocortisone) has constituted the standard approach to prophylaxis and treatment of central nervous system (CNS) leukemia and lymphoma. Intrathecal chemotherapy-related neurotoxicity has been described in a variable p...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： García-Tena J,López-Andreu JA,Ferrís J,Menor F,Mulas F,Millet E,Verdeguer A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated bone marrow (BM) recovery of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) and hematopoietic microenvironment after chemotherapy in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Twenty-nine de novo childhood ALL patients were enrolled and BM biopsy sections at diagnosis (BM0), after induction (BM1), consolidation (BM...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Park SH,Lee MJ,Park CJ,Jang S,Seo EJ,Im HJ,Seo JJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the outcome of 27 children with de novo acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (AMKL) (excluding Down syndrome) enrolled in the French multicenter prospective study ELAM02 (2005-2011). There was no difference in gender, initial leukocyte count, CNS involvement, and complete remission rate (88.9%), as compared to ot...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Teyssier AC,Lapillonne H,Pasquet M,Ballerini P,Baruchel A,Ducassou S,Fenneteau O,Petit A,Cuccuini W,Ragu C,Preudhomme C,Mercher T,Sirvent N,Leverger G

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Chronic liver disease causes a disruption of procoagulant and anticoagulant factors, resulting in a fragile state, prone to increased rates of both bleeding and thrombosis. Currently, there is limited literature describing the changes observed in pediatric liver disease and extrahepatic portal vein obstruc...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Beattie W,Magnusson M,Hardikar W,Monagle P,Ignjatovic V

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the quantitative aspects of the shift in production from fetal hemoglobin (HbF) to adult hemoglobin (HbA), the HbF and HbA mass were estimated in a preterm infant (gestational age 29 weeks) for 22 weeks after an exchange transfusion the second day of life, leading to an initial HbA% of 100. Up until the es...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Refsum HE,Bechensteen AG,Lindemann R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effect of recombinant human granulocyte-colony stimulation factor (rhG-CSF) on the immune system, serum immunoglobulins, lymphocyte subsets, and serum cytokines were analyzed in eight pediatric patients with aplastic anemia (AA) during 8-week rhG-CSF therapy. The rhG-CSF was administered either subcut...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Hibi S,Yoshihara T,Nakajima F,Misu H,Mabuchi O,Imashuku S

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma is the most common solid tumor in childhood and is the most frequent neural crest tumor (NCT). More than 90% of the patients excrete high levels of vanilmandelic acid (VMA) and homovanillic acid (HVA) in the urine. Original biochemical methods for measuring these two metabolites of catecholamines employe...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Gregianin LJ,McGill AC,Pinheiro CM,Brunetto AL

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) of the liver is rare in children, and it is usually diagnosed through a biopsy of the liver or hepatectomy. The authors report a case of a 10-year-old girl with multiple focal nodular hyperplasia lesions of the liver after the completion of tumor therapy for advanced neuroblastoma, and ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Sugito K,Kusafuka T,Kawashima H,Uekusa S,Furuya T,Ohashi K,Inoue M,Ikeda T,Koshinaga T,Maebayashi T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of pediatric severe aplastic anemia (SAA) with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT), presents major challenges including the risks of graft failure, septic complications, and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Additive infusions of human umbilical cord derived mesenchymal stem ce...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Si Y,Yang K,Qin M,Zhang C,Du Z,Zhang X,Liu Y,Yue Y,Feng Z

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single institution's experience of three patients with nephroblastoma extending via the inferior vena cava to the right heart is described. The case reports and the pertinent literature illustrate that preoperative failure to detect the intracardial extension increases the risk of right outflow obstruction and pulmo...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kremens B,Sadony V,Goepel M,Hellinger A,Havers W

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous remission/regression of cancer is defined as partial or complete disappearance of malignant disease temporarily or permanently in the absence of medical treatment. This event is named as spontaneous regression for solid tumors and spontaneous remission for leukemia. The authors report the case of a girl ag...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Yoruk A,Erguven M,Celiker E,Aki H,Timur C,Yuksel E,Ozkan H

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary erythrocytosis diagnosed in a 10-month-old female and followed for 12 years is described. The erythrocytosis was associated with an abnormally elevated set point of erythropoietin production in which the sensitivity fluctuated independently, but corresponded to the alterations in the oxygen-carrying capacity o...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Kalmantis T,Kalmanti M

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of vitamin B12 deficiency that occurred during infancy are presented. These cases appeared to be the result of pre-existing maternal deficiency. All three infants demonstrated evidence of neurodevelopmental delay at presentation, and one had sustained loss of milestones and developed involuntary motor move...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Doyle JJ,Langevin AM,Zipursky A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four children with beta-thalassemia intermedia ages 7 to 11 years developed a clinical picture characterized by headache, hypertension, convulsion, and cerebral hemorrhage after blood transfusion. Successive transfusions did not result in a similar picture. Factors responsible for this syndrome are discussed. ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Gürgey A,Kalayci O,Gümrük F,Cetin M,Altay C

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of eosinophilic meningitis 2 months before the appearance of lymphoblasts in the cerebrospinal fluid is described in a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The peripheral blood showed no simultaneous eosinophilia. The child was successfully treated for her CNS relapse, and complete remission was easil...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Behrendt H,de Korte D,van Gennip AH,van Leeuwen EF

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report their experience with 70 pediatric patients with spinal cord compression (SCC) due to malignancies identified among 898 patients with solid tumors. An extradural tumor was the most frequent cause of SCC (71%); 54% of these were soft tissue sarcomas and neuroblastoma. Most intradural tumors (70%) wer...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Pollono D,Tomarchia S,Drut R,Ibañez O,Ferreyra M,Cédola J

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children are described who presented with fever and generalized seizures, days 50 and 200, respectively, after matched unrelated donor-bone marrow transplantation. Upon antiepileptic treatment the seizures vanished but somnolence and fever remained. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain was performed and r...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Fischmeister G,Wiesbauer P,Holzmann HM,Peters C,Eibl M,Gadner H

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endocrinological complications in β-thalassemia major patients do affect the life quality to a large extend. In this study, the endocrinological complications of 47 β-thalassemia patients, who have been followed-up at our hospital's pediatric hematology department, were evaluated. Out of β-thalassemia major cases ...

journal_title：Pediatric hematology and oncology

authors： Isik P,Yarali N,Tavil B,Demirel F,Karacam GB,Sac RU,Fettah A,Ozkasap S,Kara A,Tunc B

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00